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journey. we talked to migraines, making a desperate and dangerous jungle trek to panama in search of a better life. and friends and activists called the release of a journalist who's been in chinese detention for a year without trial. and i'm far as small with the sports as new era is about to begin in spanish football for the 1st time in nearly 2 decades. legacies, and will get underway without super started with me. the taliban has made its most significant gains yet in an offensive. that's leaving, cobble dangerously exposed, it's captured afghanistan, 2nd largest city kandahar, which is the arm groups birthplace. elsewhere in the south taliban fighters also took control of laska god. so the latest gains mean that in the past week 18 of

afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals have fallen, kept capture of kandahar alaska adding to other territory taken including her at in the west and gasoline, which it took control of on thursday. and the taliban has detained the veteran commander of a militia in western afghan. a stone is male con, known as the lion of her raps was taken. as taliban fighters seized the city con is one of afghan austin's most prominent warlords, battling soviet, occupies in the 19 eighties and working with us forces to topple the taliban in 2001. charlotte bellis is joining us. live here on the news from cobble. charlotte, what's the latest on the fight for? i'm gonna stop while we're just head to board provincial capital confirms who have fallen to the taliban. napoleon law which the provincial capital of logo, which is just south of cobb. taliban said earlier today that they claimed that they said that the governor essentially joined to the movements. but as we understand

that now the governor was overwhelmed by telephone flashes in his homebound and serene de to them. there was some fighting in the city today, but we can confirm now that poly alarm is fully on the telephone control. it is especially significant because it is right next to car to drive from cobbled to pull. the alarm is about an hour 65 kilometers. it is also president gandhi's birthplace, so a very significant gains, the telephone, picking up that one today, also come in volleyball that we believe has just fallen. also there is video of the governor absolve being escorted out of town by the taliban, which has just come out in the last hour with a claiming that and that is in the self. so to sum up for you, because these are a lot of places across the country, 18 provincial capital, they have gained in one week. there are $34.00 in total. so they, and more than half the provincial capitals. 7 of those have fallen in the last 24

hours. and that includes as going to the 2nd and 3rd biggest cities, kandahar city, and to ross and also lush, car guy in helmand and best into context for you. they hadn't been able to get it from venture capital in the 5 years. that was condos and they had a very briefly now this picked up 18 and just one week ismael collins been detained as significant as that development. while he was captured this morning, i mean he's very well known in afghanistan. he is a very dominant figure in the west. some people might call him a whoop or a militia leader, but he was the former governor via he fought the taliban for decades. even in recent month later, local uprising movement is a very old man. and he had been funded by the government with arms and weapons and they had really relied on him to keep the taliban out. we understood yesterday when herat was taken that he was on the run, but then he was captured this morning alongside the deputy interior minister of the

country. also, the herat government and various other leaders, the telephone, putting out a statement saying that these men had joined their movement, unclear how much free will exactly these men had in that there's been a press conference for example, held in mount homes house this afternoon with the herat will form a herat guffman now and the taliban. so the taliban putting on a show if you will, of everybody working together they had is mel hom, record a video where you said, you know, brothers should work and piece together. so they really using this as, as a statement pace. they said that while they catch him that let him and these other leaders go home and that they are welcome to live a dignified life. so an interesting gesture, if you will, if i'm to speak to someone who has been one of the biggest photos. charlotte, thank you very much. all about us, their report in life from cobble. well the u. k says it could return to get this

done. if al qaeda is allowed to flourish the again and threatened the west and re, simmons is a correspondence. so and clearly the london government anticipating a may be but a dangerous situation, weeks, months or a couple of years down the line. it would certainly appear so as certainly is no real sign of a special relationship, military or diplomatically with the united states. right now ben wallace, the defense minister, has been making quite clear about he disagreed profoundly with the us president donald trump. when he was in dough hall in 20, 20 february 2020 signing up on a deal with the tunnel for the withdrawal of us forces. that means, according to the defense minister here, there's no way a britain could. you don't actually not be part of but be actually part of a presence in afghanistan has to pull out. however,

he was pressured on this point and did say that the baby african stone is a failed state would be a breeding ground for al qaeda. and taliban may well a renee on assurances that they wouldn't allow carter to be part of of a system of power. and he had this to say about britain being a part of a potential for going back in the car for the rest of the world. and the kind of, i have a message from last time you start hasting how to use that attacking the west or countries of that we could be back. and andrew, there is this meeting of nate, so officials as well, what are we expecting? come out of that. yes, that's an emergency meeting of all 30 members of nato talking logistics. really about getting evacuations organized promptly and reducing staff numbers at western embassies. and indeed,

changing the location of the west of invoices that are in the capital, kabul, because of security concerns. and everyone saying that there's no panic over this, but there are red lights flashing not only in diplomatic circles, but ministry ones as well. there are extra $3000.00 us troops coming in. most of those have arrived now. britain is sending another $600.00 troops into organize the the civilians, u. k. possible holders, evacuations that also africa and the civilians who are part of the a british military operation. now they're reducing the number of, of stuff in the embassy, certainly of the u. k embassy, and they're moving it to an undisclosed location out of the area are sitting right now, which is a secure, high security area anyway. but there is a lot of alarm about this. there is no doubt a major operation going on now to get out all the afghan install another signal to, to return a bomb, making advances that really surprised military strategists in the west pace of it.

and they are making a strident moves. it would seem not in any way put off by any frets of further action from the forces before they leave. mary is a definitely a situation now where the, the big word in military circles is get out. and thank you very much and are simmons there? john is live from london. so how does the taliban stack up against and afghan histones own forces? about 300000 people make up the afghan security forces including the local military air force and the police. $5000000000.00 a year is spent training and equipping them, most of which comes from the united states. on the other side, the taliban is believed to have between 558-5000 fighters. they pull in hundreds of millions of dollars per year, largely through the sale of drugs, narcotics, and taxes in areas they control. all the afghan forces have

a bigger budget and better hardware. the taliban has been bolstered by low morale within the national army. let's talk to symbol con, political and security analysts joining us on skype from islam about symbol. com. welcome back to the news. the afghan security forces slash military or the taliban, who's the better equipped and who's more up for the fight. i think after the last 2 days that question is nobody ballard i've, i think it's been surprising and a shocking foster a bond from the fox movement of the signing bond on the military from has shock. literally everyone talked me. i was my sense predicting to last week about the bond we struggled when you know the provincial capital, but there has been a, you know, this is, this has been a very shocking development for us. i think the main thing is all surprising is, is less the dollar bonds, or military progress. and,

and the foss speed with which the india, which is the national defense of have, have backed up or have resisted fighting that started by. and i think that has been a big surprise because you would know that a few years ago dollar bond has have been trying to, to capture, couldn't do that. the capital and, and the fighting was very strong. that there security forces put in a very strong resistance to that, and they were not able to do on the take up any of the provincial gap. and after trying and losing a lot of assets. and to based on that, everyone was predicting that at least as far as the provincial center, then captains, the concern, the fighting is going to be in ken. but that did not happen on the ease of started bond with which they have moved. i think their strategy has been surrounding the gap and then this is moon that on the district surrounding each of the provincial gap, the valley bond had significant b. but controlling access to the city,

they were controlling the area of that. and the number that you bought about 300000 national courses, which is about $50000.00 to $60000.00 bond forces. i think that that's also a project number because the dotted one is when we look at them, there are some that are all central units like the red unit and all those that move around. but a lot of sally by not actually they have access within each of these districts. okay. job the part time fight, which are not there full time. ok them i think course you the symbol. com. what is it that's changed about the pallet, bands, paramilitary dna. how have they gone from not being very effective for and a half, 5 years ago. fast forward to where we are today. and they are being demonstrably, very effective, almost not just day to day, almost hour to hour. and by the time they have moved onto the next target, astra gone is government forces are still playing catch up at the 12th or the 13th

or the 14th provincial capital to fall. and they've already moved on to the next one after that. yeah, i think i'll come back to exactly what i was saying before. i think what we are missing bit in these 4 to 5 years that you mention is how much of thought a bon creeping control in the district around that was allowed them to entrench themselves. they were allowed to put in, as we all know, that bob had little military governors, military commanders, and a horse chain of command system based around the city center, them around these, the district. and i think over the last quarter, 5 years, without really trying to capture major cities, they have entrenched themselves, there a fight of them organized. that is why you've seen that be just reappeared. just bounce up in different cities all around very quickly without having convoys on guard. the in the apc will be around around the ring or,

or around the structure. that is why you see them just kind of fall off within provincial. and that's why the, you know, the surprising, very strong, because i think they've been able to entrench themselves politically as well as li themselves around every analyst we're talking to on this program. indeed on this channel is saying the same thing that pretty much saying what you're saying, which is this, the taliban have the strategic momentum behind them. they're up and running. they clearly have a very well organized, very well thought out plan as rep gone is forces the government forces are they hobbled, if you will, on 2 counts, count number one, we're seeing and reading and watching these reports talking about african military when they know the taliban is heading their way. they literally give up an area number 2, once the afghan, once the taliban paramilitary organization talk me, take these provincial capitals. the afghan military is cut off from its supply

lines on the other side of those provincial cities. that's just fallen. i've just fallen to the taliban. i think you're absolutely right, and i think it's a, it's a lot to do with conventional military fighting the law and the for generation war walk with, with the militia, which are half of them a part of the local population. what living there have a live history. and then with that also, i think the last 2 years for what, you know, whenever we talk about typing skill them in ability of military, whether it's an organized national army or a militia, the morale off the group is a big factor. i mean, it's steven because sometimes then the equipment or the technology that they're using, i think the morale since last week. 5 with us announcing its departure with then of course the areas support which is longer, very central window and when the military the good up to the thought on and going

to spend. and then it was re taken back, the support from the us military, freshly based from the base is inside of minus on was very, very crucial. i know of the u. s. has been trying to provide that over the eyes and support last month was, will optim pulling out their bases from atlanta. but it's not the same for what having dom, we're doing a doing support in a kind of generation battlefront where you fighting with them. but then grabbing video, going to no been area, you need very, very close. or with gunship helicopter, and other middle and, and roll and as well as f 16. then the fight, the aircraft, which has to be managed by special forces on the ground which fall in target date, very specific strikes on moving target. most of the tonight, the thought about on the people with the rocket launches that they, you are moving targets that have gone. so you, you find kind of a miller to president of our national poll,

says shipping like doc within. and then there the mobile kind of a militia surrounding them from different who will not believe the line better than and okay, you know, the log in or where to fight. yeah. symbol. com. thank you so much for joining us here on the news. i really good to get your thoughts on this evolving compelling story out of the canister on will a border crossing between pakistan and afghanistan to date reopen falling a fight between god. some people trying to cross into afghanistan. early a hundreds of afghans waited to reenter the country. they then threw stones at the security forces, who then responded with tear gas. people were angry after one afghan traveller died while waiting to return home through the spin bolden. crossing out his ear was campbell hider has more now from islam about voice, the dollar bond, and the bugger. so i need, i've been saying they didn't grow dag border. however, they were a huge backlog and they were people on the budget on the side of the board. what they have to do is to grok by on for,

and i've gotten several 100 meters in order to get to the side which is under the control of the avalon dollar bond. and that one particular pedestrian who died of a heart attack. and that of course, led to tremendous anger from doors of angel. we're waiting on the budgets on each side of the board. we started crediting stones that day to guarantee for his gender to guide thing, but the boarders now opened it as open from 8 am local time. it will be open until 4 pm every day in order to eat congestion because for one week, hundreds away goes on board side were stranded, the trading community renter the government and said, lot of honest on need supplied. their traders depend on that trade for their livelihood. they said, of course that city come daughter salvage over $400000.00 people and this is the men logistical lifeline into of line it's done although now rated and dollar bond

and it is a major conduit and a lifeline for honest on particularly as part of the out that concerned by good son of god, had voiced its apprehension. they lived together the situation, deteriorate, insight on his don wickertree, an influx of gone refugees, buggered on its already haunted $3000000.00 of refugees. and there was a concern that some anti bargain on elements may try to cross the border by dated business as usual. the boarded now open plenty more ahead here on your use are including the fires may be under control in greece and others who lost everything on demanding accountability. and after more than a decade, britney spears father steps the size, the person who controls money and life, and in sport, a sensational season, continues to as soon as he intended. coming out late

thailand is struggling to control its biggest wave of kobe 19. yet while the pace of vaccination is increasing, it'll take some time to catch up with the infection rates. scott jaila has that story from bangkok. allow me a lot. this is thailand's worst week and it's covered 19 battles. they were to record breaking days of new infections. and once with a high of 233 deaths until the start of the current 3rd wave of the virus in april thailand had only about 30000 coban 1900 cases in all. since then, it's added more than $830000.00 a delayed vaccine rollout has been the focus of much criticism directed at the government and the mixed messaging about preventative measures. as the 3rd wave was just taking hold, the rapid spike in cases has led to heavy strain on the health care system, which is considered one of the best in the region. volunteers have jumped in to fill the gaps fell upon loud, gotten to me, the existence of volunteer groups shows how the government has failed the part. so

people have to help each other. the health ministry has proposed community decrease that would prevent any legal action against from my medical staff. while working on cobit 900 patients, it says it's designed to help them do their job. but it would also protect those responsible for vaccine procurement in area that has come under critical scrutiny from the opposition and pro democracy protesters that i've made either on the disconcerting precedent. if the government wants to be protected from their own actions, have seen more people showing the government targeting policy makers. i don't think people will go out to frontline medical staff. i think the officer will be at ease it have some kind of immunity. so off, while medical experts say a better supply and variety of vaccines are critical for the overall battle against proven 19. more at home testing should be the top priorities. while the recent wave started in bangkok and other large cities, it is now spread to rural thailand. and that's an added complication because

there's limited access in these areas to health care and vaccines. but experts say more testing would help. i think that the piss his work, he's the key to, to, to help control the infection. ideally, it should be free for all people, because if you have this test in your hand at home, you can monitor yourself. if you get infect, you have, you can help self home isolation, doctor put you and says it would also free a bed space and medical staff for those who need advance care. and it would help protect some of the more vulnerable groups, the elderly and children. as the rates of covered 1900 spreading inside households increases got either al jazeera venica. south korea's prime minister is pleading with the public to minimize travel avoids meeting in groups and work from home as infections rise. the country has reported run 2000 new cases for 3 days in a row. now, a 4th wave of infections has been driven by the highly contagious delta of erin,

which is now the dominant strain of the virus across the country. japan has put western and southern areas on high alert because of severe weather warnings. torrential rain triggered a mudslide that engulf 2 houses in the city of wounds in nagasaki. prefecture, 4 people were swept away. one was found that 2 others a missing residence. in some areas have been told to prepare for evaluations. turkeys president, wretched type heard one has declared disasters in northern region set by flooding where at least 27 people have died. heavy rain hit, the black sea problems is this week. it's the 2nd disaster this month after huge fires broke widespread destruction to southern coastal areas. 22 people have been arrested in algeria suspected of being behind many of the wildfires there, the government has been struggling to contain them and its appeal to international help will be 3 days of national mourning for the 69 people who lost their lives. the wildfires in greece are now largely contained, of course,

and what the prime minister says is the worst ecological disaster in decades. more than 100000 hectares of land and forests burned over a time of 2 weeks. the bas robbie reports not from athens. the quiet of a life was forest sharp contrast to the violent wildfires that snuffed it out. crystals beat us walks the burned woods looking for injured animals. the forest stood for many years. he says filled with animals. dear wolves, wild boar, whatever anyone can imagine, to find in a forest apathy. but we started trying to save animals right from the start. and there's a matter of fact, a lot of these animals we knew because we were feeding them to pull out of that one going to the ends. unfortunately, we found many of them dead. all living creatures have souls. he says. so they all

matter. looking at the landscape now, he doesn't know how anything can continue to live here. greece is prime minister has promised to replant every tree and rehabilitate every forest that's been effected by these wildfires. but we are talking about vast tracts of land that are spread across the entire country. these are forests that it took generations to grow or cement the better he, whoever lives in this area are people who are alive. they live in nature in the forest, they know how to face fires or are brave enough to help the firefighters. i was isn't going to be racing after a 42 year career covering the war in vietnam, as well as conflicts in europe and the middle east. electors would set us retired to a house in the woods, a lifetime of photographs, the tools of his trade cameras, computers, all gone. he might have to return to work, but says he doesn't even know where to begin. he is angry,

says he could have saved his house himself, but as a safety measure was forcibly removed by people from the civil protection ministry . i don't know what he's missing, even though we could have put it out, they cut off our water and they forced us out. these are people who don't know this area. people that had nothing to do with fire fighting. it was a mess. and this is the situation. my whole life has been burned. he won't leave even burned to the ground. he says this is his home. he will repair a cott use a brick as a pillow and sleep under open sky. his grit is all he has left. is in basra, v o 0 increase his party for mountains. british police are investigating the background of a man responsible for a mass shooting in the southwest english city of plymouth. 22 year old jake davidson shot and killed 5 people, including a young girl than himself in a quiet residential area. no motive has been determined sofa. my shootings are rare

in the u. k which does have some of the western wells, toughest gun laws, both being counted in zambia following thursday's general election. the 1st results should be announced in the coming few hours, but the final outcome isn't expected until sunday. it's expected to be a tight race between president at ga longo and his opposition rival can de itchy. lemme claims whether his car hello, their conditions remain hot and dry across much of the middle east. an event we're seeing a wet weather up in the north, around turkey and the black sea. but down south temperatures are where we expect them to be for syria and lebanon. it's iran, iraq, and to wait to see the temperatures push up. and we could see 50 degrees hits in kuwait as we go into sunday. but for the golf we've got a bit of a shema wind blowing in that's going to kick up just in doha. we could see quite a bit of hazy sunshine. now further south, we got

a wind keeping things rather cool. temperatures are slightly down here and we are expecting a few showers along the western coast, all the yemen that was moved to central africa. we've seen some very heavy rains effect. cameroon, you can see the flooding there, and we could see more of that as those rains are expected to last. well into the weekend. if you haven't, you can see those yellow peaks, not just affecting cameron, but affecting nigeria as well. we could see some flooding here, and it's a very wet picture, as well as we had further south for parts of is in bob, wy and mozambique as well as for the interior of south africa campuses in cape town have been down, but they are going to pick up and they'll be plenty of sunshine this weekend. still ahead here on out to 0. i'm. they have all in the diary and gap with come here to talk to the migrants to the thousands of migrants that are crossing through this dangerous jungle to make it to north america also had choosing cohen dogs over

corona virus. where is one of the largest annual gatherings has opened in the us and in sport, this belgian striker becomes the 2nd most expensive player in premier league history. more details later here on the news. ah, how many nukes has too many new america has in many ways driven the arms race parties are much more like the british parties. there are fewer regulations to own a tiger than there are to own a dog. how can this be happening? we take on us politics and, and that's the bottom line. the us is pulling the law of its troops, alphabet gun after a 20 year old war to the conflicts off and the taliban is on the offensive. claiming provinces were housed by the afghan government, despite international mediation, if it's what does the future hold special coverage or no, you are you dealing,

you can $800.00 birds are at risk of extinction in bishop plan to read the nation. and if the president said them, one of the best guys on out on revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threat to our planet on al jazeera. ah, ah, ah, 1330 g you watching the news? my name is peter doby, your top stories thailand is struggling to control its biggest wave of curve at 19, yet fridays saw a record daily number of infections more than 23.